Careers have always been presented as things that people just have. They happen after you get the appropriate qualifications and training and gain employment with a company looking for talent. That has been the way of things for many years. Increasingly millennials are finding that careers are no longer the organic results of hard [...]
A new year, a new round of career fairs. Whether you are a school leaver, seeking to gain an apprenticeship, aiming to go to university, seeking an internship, or chasing a graduate programme there is a plethora of shows, advice clinics, workshops, and employer fairs from which you can learn more. Fairs provide the [...]
For some the path to that perfect career is straightforward. For most the path is not so simple. Unless you undertake a vocational degree such as medicine, dentistry or engineering, what you should do after graduating can be confusing. However, there is a solution. There is something you can do to make things clearer. [...]
With a university degree having evolved from a rare commodity to a qualification boasted by one in three today, job competition for graduates is fiercer than ever – which is where the concept of graduate career development has evolved. Alexander Partners aims to help students in their final years at university, recently graduated or [...]
You are about to leave school, college or university and are applying for apprenticeships or graduate jobs. Thankfully, you continued playing the piano or football with your local team; you may have managed to get involved in sports, music or perhaps the university debating society. Great, you are equipped with qualifications, extra-curricular activities and [...]
For the majority of students, picking the best university to meet their personal preferences of course and future career can be a daunting task. With the number of career opportunities now so heavily dependent on what course you complete and from where the pressure to get your options spot on is significant. However, rather [...]
Career fairs can feel more like Carnaby Street market than an opportunity to introduce yourself to prospective employers. The truth is that whether or not they have vacancies many companies attend career fairs and other recruiting events. Shopping for talent is part of their development strategy. In many cases the CVs they collect will [...]
As we move into the new year there is a tendency for people to make grandiose resolutions. “New year, new me” has become little more than a comical meme and yet when January 1st 2017 arrives we are all tempted to take stock of our place in life and define new objectives. In the [...]
Career planning for teenager’s can be scary. There are many resources both within schools and on the internet designed specifically to help students think about life after school. However, the volume and scope of information is often intimidating and could cause some to stick their head in the sand, leading to a sort of [...]
As structure of industries shift and change we see an increasing number of people who become disenfranchised. Even those who manage to gain steady, full time employment are on edge, wondering if they will remain employable. Employability, we are discovering, is not just a matter of finding employment or gaining a set of technical [...]
